On 2011/12/21 04:34, Kevin A. McGrail wrote:
On 12/21/2011 12:39 AM, jdow wrote:
On 2011/12/20 18:51, Kevin A. McGrail wrote:
My .procmailrc in my home directory has MAILDIR=/home/spool/mail :-)
What about /etc/procmailrc?
I would post the contents of both.
It makes a difference how procmail is called. It is a filter. It takes an
input and feeds it to the output. It would then be sendmail (or postfix or
whatever) that actually stuffs the mail into the mail folder where sendmail
thinks it should live.
Actually, procmail is Sendmail's Local Delivery Agent. It *is* the part of
Sendmail that delivers the mail to specific folders.
It also has very powerful filtering commands that can be used along the way to
the local delivery.
Oops - my mistrake. I forgot that the testing I did always used the -m flag
which turns it into a mail filter. So does sendmail here (RedHat default),
Mprocmail, P=/usr/bin/procmail, F=mSDFMhun, S=11, R=21,
A=procmail -Y -m $h $f $u
If -m is not there procmail will create the /var/spool/mail/$LOGNAME file that
is annoying the fellow.
MAILDIR, however, is where procmail thinks it is when it's running. So this
stanza places foobar in MAILDIR. But falling out of the end of procmail
leading to a normal delivery may not put it into that directory.
:0:
foobar
From man procmailex - this is the usual usage for MAILDIR such as when you
have procmail presort mail into folders:
MAILDIR=Mail
:0:/usr/local/lib/emacs/lock/!home!john!Mail!mailbox
* ^Subject:.*whatever
mailbox
ORGMAIL might be the variable he probably wants to use. (It defaults to
/var/spool/mail/$LOGNAME) To use it he may need to make /var/spool/mail/
<username> read only for everybody. Then the overflow goes to ORGMAIL.
Of course, he could turn /var/spool/mail into a link to /home/spool/mail
or wherever else he wants it. But that's "cheating".
{^_^}
